June 16th, 1637

Born on June 16th, 1637

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 141,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 700 days, exactly on March 29th, 2026, people who were born on June 16th, 1637 will be 142,000 days old!

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What happened on June 16th?

June 16th, 2016

Jo Cox, a British Member of Parliament, was murdered in her constituency.

June 16th, 2012

Liu Yang (pictured), a member of the Shenzhou 9 crew, became the first Chinese woman in space.

June 16th, 1972

English musician David Bowie released his breakthrough album, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.

June 16th, 1963

Aboard Vostok 6, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova (pictured) became the first woman in space.

June 16th, 1960

Psycho, a psychological horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock (pictured) and based on a novel of the same name by Robert Bloch, premiered.

June 16th, 1936

A Junkers Ju 52 aircraft of Norwegian Air Lines crashed into a mountainside near Hyllestad, Norway, killing all seven people on board.

June 16th, 1911

The technology company IBM was founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.

June 16th, 1904

Irish author James Joyce began a relationship with Nora Barnacle, and subsequently used the date to set the actions for his 1922 novel Ulysses, commemorated as Bloomsday.

June 16th, 1883

In the Victoria Hall disaster, 183 children were crushed to death when they ran down the stairs to collect gifts after a variety show in Sunderland, England.

June 16th, 1819

A strong earthquake in the Kutch district of Gujarat, India, caused a local zone of uplift that dammed the Nara River, which was later named the Allah Bund ('Dam of God').

June 16th, 1755

After a two-week siege, the French commander of Fort Beauséjour in present-day New Brunswick, Canada, surrendered to British forces, marking the end of Father Le Loutre's War.

June 16th, 1632

The Plymouth Company granted a land patent to Thomas Purchase, who became the first permanent European settler of Pejepscot, Maine.

June 16th, 1407

Ming forces conquered Đại Ngu in modern-day northern Vietnam, capturing Hồ dynasty emperor Hồ Quý Ly and bringing the country under Chinese rule.

June 16th, 0632

The final king of the Sasanian Empire of Iran, Yazdegerd III, ascended the throne at the age of eight.

June 16th, 2019

Upwards of 2,000,000 people participate in the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests, the largest in Hong Kong's history.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on June 16th

Same Day
Who's birthday is on June 16th?

56

Jürgen Klopp

German football manager (born 1967)

*June 16th, 1967, Stuttgart

61

Chairul Tanjung

Indonesian businessman and bureaucrat

*June 16th, 1962, Jakarta

56

Otto Jahn

German classical philologist, archaeologist and musicologist (1813-1869)

*June 16th, 1813, Kiel †September 9th, 1869, Göttingen

41

Christoph Letkowski

German actor and musician

*June 16th, 1982, Halle (Saale)

50

Eddie Cibrian

American actor

*June 16th, 1973, Burbank

48

Sun Jun

Chinese badminton player

*June 16th, 1975, Nanjing

34

Jean de Thévenot

French explorer

*June 16th, 1633, Paris †November 28th, 1667, Mianeh

68

Laurie Metcalf

American actress

*June 16th, 1955, Carbondale

53

Phil Mickelson

American professional golfer

*June 16th, 1970, San Diego

48

Willemijn Verkaik

Dutch singer-actor

*June 16th, 1975, Son en Breugel

74

Jack Albertson

American character actor, dancer, singer and comedian

*June 16th, 1907, Malden †November 25th, 1981, Hollywood

84

Katharine Graham

American publisher, editor and author (1917–2001)

*June 16th, 1917, New York City †July 17th, 2001, Boise

23

Bianca Andreescu

Canadian tennis player

*June 16th, 2000, Mississauga

92

Annie Cordy

Belgian actress and singer

*June 16th, 1928, Laeken - Laken †September 4th, 2020, Vallauris

90

Barbara McClintock

American scientist and cytogeneticist

*June 16th, 1902, Hartford †September 2nd, 1992, Huntington

80

Joan Van Ark

American actress (born 1943)

*June 16th, 1943, New York City

62

Petru Iosub

Romanian rower

*June 16th, 1961, Fălticeni

45

Daniel Brühl

German actor

*June 16th, 1978, Barcelona

26

Camila Morrone

American actress

*June 16th, 1997, Los Angeles

25

Tupac Shakur

American rapper (1971–1996)

*June 16th, 1971, East Harlem †September 13th, 1996, University Medical Center of Southern Nevada

Same year
Born in 1637

52

Charles Démia

French presbyter (1637-1689)

*October 3rd, 1637, Bourg-en-Bresse †October 23rd, 1689, Lyon

75

Pierre Jurieu

French theologian

*December 24th, 1637, Mer †January 11th, 1713, Rotterdam

51

Wolfgang Gundling

German theologian (1637-1689)

*December 24th, 1637, Nuremberg †July 31st, 1689, Nuremberg

72

Bernardo Pasquini

Italian Baroque composer

*December 7th, 1637, Massa e Cozzile †November 22nd, 1710, Rome

76

Edmund Andros

British governor of several North American colonies (1637–1714)

*December 6th, 1637, London †February 24th, 1714, London

73

Joseph Werner the Younger

Swiss painter (1637-1710)

*July 22nd, 1637, Bern †September 21st, 1710, Bern

61

Richard Morton

English doctor

*January 1st, 1637, Worcestershire †January 1st, 1698, London

37

Jacques Marquette

French Jesuit and explorer (1637-1675)

*June 1st, 1637, Laon †May 18th, 1675, Michigan Center

34

Anne, Duchess of York

English Royal

*March 12th, 1637, Windsor †March 31st, 1671, St James's Palace

43

Jan Swammerdam

Dutch entomologist and beekeeper

*February 12th, 1637, Amsterdam †February 17th, 1680, Amsterdam

62

Adrian of Moscow

Patriarch of Moscow (1638-1700)

*November 30th, 1637, Moscow †October 16th, 1700, Moscow

29

Mateo Cerezo

Spanish artist (1637-1666)

*March 31st, 1637, Burgos †June 29th, 1666, Madrid

75

Antonius Hülse

German architect (1637-1712)

*January 21st, 1637, Kranichfeld †August 21st, 1712, Siegen

77

Sébastien Leclerc

French painter (1637-1714)

*September 26th, 1637, Metz †October 25th, 1714, Paris

68

Philipp Ludwig Hanneken

German theologian (1637-1706)

*June 5th, 1637, Marburg †January 16th, 1706, Lutherstadt Wittenberg

67

Valentin Heins

German mathematician

*May 15th, 1637, Hamburg †November 17th, 1704, Hamburg

60

Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont

French ecclesiastical historian (1637–1698)

*November 30th, 1637, Paris †January 10th, 1698, Paris

74

Lorenzo Magalotti

Italian philosopher, poet and diplomat (1637-1712)

*October 24th, 1637, Rome †March 2nd, 1712, Florence

60

Jacob Breyne

Dutch-Polish botanist and zoologist (1637-1697)

*January 1st, 1637, Gdańsk †January 1st, 1697, Gdańsk

39

Johann Georg Ebeling

German composer

*July 8th, 1637, Lüneburg †December 4th, 1676, Szczecin

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1637 is a normal year and no leap year.

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